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econd question is very dif- ferent. Philosophers and scientists have struggled mightily to understand what pain and pleasure are. I especially like Dennett's (1978) explanation of why that has been so difficult. He argues that pain "works" in different ways at different times, and all those ways have

Marvin Minsky Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Why Do We Like Music? Why do we like mus

mes before anything larger or more complex is presented. No one remembers word for word all that is said in a lecture or all notes that are played Minsky 29 EFTA00284090 Fig. 1. Introductory mea- sures of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. Flutes Mote Clarinets in Bb Broca Fla

don Press, 2004. David, Hans T. The New Bach Reader: Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. New edition. W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. Dennett, Daniel C., and Douglas R. Hofstadter. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. Basic Books, 2000. Dewdney. New Turing Omnibus. Rep

H PROBLEM: What Can We Do with Diophantine Equations?. Accessed April 13, 2014. http://logic.pdmi-ras. ru/~yumat/Journal/H10history/H10histe.pdf.gz. Minsky, Marvin Lee. Computation. Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, 1967. http:// cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/Minsky.pdf. Nagel, Ernest, and James R. Ne

our abilities which will enrich our lives. But I am reasonably certain that computers will never be the overlords of bacteria. 35 See, for example, Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017). 133 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016936 Alex “Sandy” Pentland, an expo

the 1955 proposal thought to be the first printed usage of the phrase “artificial intelligence,” computer scientist John McCarthy and his colleagues Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon conjectured that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so preci

our abilities which will enrich our lives. But I am reasonably certain that computers will never be the overlords of bacteria. 35 See, for example, Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017). 133 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016353 Alex “Sandy” Pentland, an expo

the 1955 proposal thought to be the first printed usage of the phrase “artificial intelligence,” computer scientist John McCarthy and his colleagues Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon conjectured that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so preci